{"id":3032,"date":"2011-10-21T11:34:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T18:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2011-10-21T11:34:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T18:34:21","slug":"compatible-quotes-george-shearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/10\/compatible-quotes-george-shearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Compatible Quotes: George Shearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the old crystal set, then go to the piano and pick out the tune that I just heard.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">On the standard \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lullaby of Birdland,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which he composed one morning at breakfast:<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it, but not of collecting the royalties.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>You know, when you&#8217;ve established a certain thing, what can you do? You&#8217;re stuck with it.<\/em> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Asked if he had been blind all of his life:<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Not yet.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the old crystal set, then go to the piano and pick out the tune that I just heard. On the standard \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lullaby of Birdland,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which he composed one morning at breakfast: I always tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}